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Abducted At Four, Chinese Man Reunites With Family After 21 Years, Cuts Ties With Adoptive Home
A Chinese man abducted at the age of four reunited with his birth family after 21 years through DNA testing, chose to cut ties with the family that raised him.
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Delhi Private Offices Not Adopting Work-From-Home To Face Action: Minister
Ordering closure of all illegal industries, Delhi Environment and Industries Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday warned of strict action against private companies violating the government's direction to switch to work-from-home (WFH) .
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In Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants, Assam Plans To Allow Only Top District Officials To Issue Aadhaar: Himanta Sarma
The Assam government is considering empowering only district commissioners (DCs) to issue Aadhaar to adults in a bid to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining the unique biometric identity number.
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Binance Operations Declared Illegal by Nigerian Market Regulator, Asked to Discontinue
The Nigerian markets regulator has ordered the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance to halt its operations in the country, saying a local unit that courted Nigerian investors through a website was illegal.
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Uber, Ola, Rapido Directed to Stop Three-Wheeler Services in Bengaluru Over 'Exorbitant' Pricing
Uber, Ola, and Rapido were directed to stop three-wheeler services in Bengaluru on Thursday, over accusations of overcharging customers and harassment. While, Uber in recent weeks has been running television ads on its autorickshaw service in India, Rapido said its operations in Bengaluru are not illegal and it will respond to the notice. Last mont...
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South Korean Authorities to Levy Gift Tax on Crypto Airdrops: Report
As per local news reports, the South Korean government plans to introduce a new gift tax on crypto asset airdrops despite pushing back on the adoption of capital gains tax for the asset class so far. The government can currently levy gift or inheritance tax for 15 years on an individual that has given "gifts or inheritance" illegally or without not...
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Russian Woman Arrested For Selling Her Five-Day-Old Baby To Pay For Nose Job: Report
A Russian woman was recently arrested for selling her newborn baby to pay $3,581 (Rs 286,163) for a nose job. The 33-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy on April 25 and she sold him off just five days later to a local couple.
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Make Sure No Break In Studies Of Children Hit By COVID-19, States Told
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the state governments and union territories to prevent any NGO from collecting funds in the names of children orphaned by COVID-19, by disclosing their identity and inviting interested persons to adopt them.
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How Will You Release Detainees, Top Court Asks Assam Government
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Assam government to apprise it of "ways and means" that can be adopted to release illegal foreigners languishing in the state's detention centres for almost a decade.
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Congress In Telangana To Boycott MLC Election
Congress in Telangana on Monday announced it would boycott the MLC election on Tuesday, accusing ruling TRS of poaching four of its lawmakers and a TDP legislator ''in a brazen manner by adopting all illegal means.''
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After Alleged Illegal Adoptions Juvenile Justice Act Likely To Be Amended
The Women and Child Development Ministry is going to amend the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act to make the district magistrates and collectors "competent officers" for approving adoptions, instead of courts, Union minister Maneka Gandhi said today, days after cases of alleged illegal adoptions came to light in Jharkhand.
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Woman Who Traced Her Birth Mother To India Finds Heartbreaking Truth
Mumbai: As an Indian child adopted and raised in Sweden, Nilakshi Elizabeth Purve Jorendal, was always curious about her birth mother. Her adoptive parents were open about her background, which was “hard to miss when you are a brown girl growing up in a white country” with three white siblings, said Ms Jorendal, now 44. So in the late 1990s she...
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Court In Madhya Pradesh Nullifies Triple Talaq For Not Following Norms
A family court has nullified the Triple Talaq given by a man to his wife saying that due procedure, as prescribed in Muslim religious texts, was not followed. Additional principal judge Omprakash Sharma on March 9 observed that the procedure adopted by Tousif Sheikh to divorce his wife was "illegal" and "ineffective" and nullified the same.
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No Tolerance To Illegal Mining In Uttarakhand: Trivendra Singh Rawat
Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday asked officials to adopt zero-tolerance towards illegal mining, days after a forest department employee was killed allegedly by mining mafia in Ramnagar.
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Mysuru Hospital Staff Arrested For Stealing Babies For Illegal Adoption
Six hospital staff in Karnataka have been charged with stealing babies and young children and selling them to childless couples in an illegal adoption racket, police said on Friday. The three men and three women, who worked as nurses and lab technicians at five private hospitals and a government-run hospital in Mysuru city, were part of a bigger, o...
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Abducted At Four, Chinese Man Reunites With Family After 21 Years, Cuts Ties With Adoptive Home
A Chinese man abducted at the age of four reunited with his birth family after 21 years through DNA testing, chose to cut ties with the family that raised him.
-
Delhi Private Offices Not Adopting Work-From-Home To Face Action: Minister
Ordering closure of all illegal industries, Delhi Environment and Industries Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday warned of strict action against private companies violating the government's direction to switch to work-from-home (WFH) .
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In Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants, Assam Plans To Allow Only Top District Officials To Issue Aadhaar: Himanta Sarma
The Assam government is considering empowering only district commissioners (DCs) to issue Aadhaar to adults in a bid to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining the unique biometric identity number.
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Binance Operations Declared Illegal by Nigerian Market Regulator, Asked to Discontinue
The Nigerian markets regulator has ordered the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance to halt its operations in the country, saying a local unit that courted Nigerian investors through a website was illegal.
-
Uber, Ola, Rapido Directed to Stop Three-Wheeler Services in Bengaluru Over 'Exorbitant' Pricing
Uber, Ola, and Rapido were directed to stop three-wheeler services in Bengaluru on Thursday, over accusations of overcharging customers and harassment. While, Uber in recent weeks has been running television ads on its autorickshaw service in India, Rapido said its operations in Bengaluru are not illegal and it will respond to the notice. Last mont...
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South Korean Authorities to Levy Gift Tax on Crypto Airdrops: Report
As per local news reports, the South Korean government plans to introduce a new gift tax on crypto asset airdrops despite pushing back on the adoption of capital gains tax for the asset class so far. The government can currently levy gift or inheritance tax for 15 years on an individual that has given "gifts or inheritance" illegally or without not...
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Russian Woman Arrested For Selling Her Five-Day-Old Baby To Pay For Nose Job: Report
A Russian woman was recently arrested for selling her newborn baby to pay $3,581 (Rs 286,163) for a nose job. The 33-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy on April 25 and she sold him off just five days later to a local couple.
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Make Sure No Break In Studies Of Children Hit By COVID-19, States Told
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the state governments and union territories to prevent any NGO from collecting funds in the names of children orphaned by COVID-19, by disclosing their identity and inviting interested persons to adopt them.
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How Will You Release Detainees, Top Court Asks Assam Government
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Assam government to apprise it of "ways and means" that can be adopted to release illegal foreigners languishing in the state's detention centres for almost a decade.
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Congress In Telangana To Boycott MLC Election
Congress in Telangana on Monday announced it would boycott the MLC election on Tuesday, accusing ruling TRS of poaching four of its lawmakers and a TDP legislator ''in a brazen manner by adopting all illegal means.''
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After Alleged Illegal Adoptions Juvenile Justice Act Likely To Be Amended
The Women and Child Development Ministry is going to amend the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act to make the district magistrates and collectors "competent officers" for approving adoptions, instead of courts, Union minister Maneka Gandhi said today, days after cases of alleged illegal adoptions came to light in Jharkhand.
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Woman Who Traced Her Birth Mother To India Finds Heartbreaking Truth
Mumbai: As an Indian child adopted and raised in Sweden, Nilakshi Elizabeth Purve Jorendal, was always curious about her birth mother. Her adoptive parents were open about her background, which was “hard to miss when you are a brown girl growing up in a white country” with three white siblings, said Ms Jorendal, now 44. So in the late 1990s she...
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Court In Madhya Pradesh Nullifies Triple Talaq For Not Following Norms
A family court has nullified the Triple Talaq given by a man to his wife saying that due procedure, as prescribed in Muslim religious texts, was not followed. Additional principal judge Omprakash Sharma on March 9 observed that the procedure adopted by Tousif Sheikh to divorce his wife was "illegal" and "ineffective" and nullified the same.
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No Tolerance To Illegal Mining In Uttarakhand: Trivendra Singh Rawat
Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday asked officials to adopt zero-tolerance towards illegal mining, days after a forest department employee was killed allegedly by mining mafia in Ramnagar.
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Mysuru Hospital Staff Arrested For Stealing Babies For Illegal Adoption
Six hospital staff in Karnataka have been charged with stealing babies and young children and selling them to childless couples in an illegal adoption racket, police said on Friday. The three men and three women, who worked as nurses and lab technicians at five private hospitals and a government-run hospital in Mysuru city, were part of a bigger, o...
